Policy Priorities
Holding the bureaucracy accountable
Preventing bureaucratic abuses
Cutting red tape
Reducing Crony Capitalism
Preventing discrimination based on immutable characteristics
Protecting freedom of speech from cancel culture and tech censorship
The American republic was founded as a government by, for, and of the people, to defend the people’s rights — but sadly that aspiration at times seems like a distant dream. Policymakers empower unelected bureaucracies that rule huge swaths of American life. Legislative, judicial, and executive power has become concentrated within the regulatory agencies themselves. As a result, regulatory agencies effect massive shifts in policy that elected representatives never voted on. Various protections empower the career bureaucrats to pursue their own preferred policies with little regard to the views of elected officials. What began two-and-a-half centuries ago as man’s greatest experiment in self-governance looks now like rule without consent of the governed. Meanwhile, the federal government ignores growing threats to American liberties like cancel culture, tech censorship, and state-sanctioned racial discrimination. The Center for American Freedom exists to defend American freedom from both government and non-governmental threats. It will conduct research and generate policies that cut the red tape of burdensome regulations, defend fundamental rights, and restore American governance as originally intended.
The Founders designed the Constitution to protect the people’s rights and hold the government accountable. They believed that concentrated power was vulnerable to abuse, so they divided federal authority between executive, legislative, and judicial branches. They further required the executive and legislative branches to regularly stand for re-election, holding policymakers accountable to those they govern. And they strictly limited the federal government’s authority, leaving most governing power to state and local government. The contemporary administrative state circumvents these constitutional protections. The federal government needs to return to these constitutional safeguards that protect Americans’ liberties. It also needs to take vigorous action to defend the American people’s rights from emerging non-governmental threats, such as cancel culture and tech censorship.
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April 8, 2025
Auto tariffs are steering jobs back to the US
For decades, American autoworkers have borne the brunt of plant closures, wage cuts, and offshoring — all in the name of “free trade.” Corporations, enabled by broken trade deals, hollowed out industrial communities and shipped good-paying jobs overseas. That chapter has closed. President Donald Trump’s bold move to impose a 25% tariff on imported automobiles and key auto parts signals a major shift, one that the United Auto Workers union is calling a victory for American laborers.
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March 18, 2025
95 Percent of Federal Employees Express Liberal Views At Work
What do federal employees talk about around the proverbial watercooler? As it turns out, the overwhelming answer is: liberal politics. And that has ramifications for all Americans.
Research Report
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March 13, 2025
REPORT: 95% of Career Federal Employees Who Email about Politics at Work Express Liberal Views
Almost all federal workers are career employees. Of the approximately 2.2 million civilian positions in the federal executive branch, fewer than 5,000 are filled by political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the President. The rest are filled by career employees who keep their jobs no matter who wins the next election. This allows most federal employees to develop experience and institutional expertise—something that would be impossible if the federal employees were replaced en masse every time a new president took office.
Research Report
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March 13, 2025
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: 95% of Career Federal Employees Who E-mail About Politics at Work Express Liberal Views
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January 8, 2025
Tales From the Swamp: How Federal Bureaucrats Resisted President Trump
American democracy operates on the principle of government by the consent of the governed. Americans regularly elect the president and Members of Congress. However, difficult-to-fire career employees with entrenched job security—not political appointees who serve at the discretion of the president—perform most federal work. These employees’ jobs do not depend on election outcomes. Career employees thus exercise federal power without adequate transparency and democratic accountability.
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